‘Live in the lap of nature’. Every human mind wishes for it. We, architect at 3dor concepts were shown with a site literally in natures lap, in the foothills of lush western ghats in north Kerala. Site was also close to popular hill station Wayanad. The young client Binil Thomas wanted a single storeyed four bed house. He is a management professional working mostly in big Indian cities demands a peaceful space in the same piece of land where he spent his childhood living with his parents and siblings. His father was a successful farmer and they had already planted different kind of plants already in site.
The brick screen house is a renovation project envisioned as a synthesis of contextual parameters and user functional requirements. The project promises a better environment of living for the client from the old congested and messy house, which also architecturally enhances the climatic, contextual potential of the location. The main design intent was to blur the boundaries between the built and the natural elements.
‘Terramead Villa’, located on the outskirts of the small city of Thiruvananthapuram in the Southern tip of India. Over past 40 years it stood witness to the transformation of its calm village neighborhood to a busy suburban semi residential locality, with the road in front growing from a single lane to four lanes. It’s second-generation owner who had grown up in this house had a qualm of the rooms not growing up with him and the surroundings!
A re-design of the house was initiated, primarily to have more spacious and better lit up rooms.
The Malabar Province of the Order of Discalced Carmelite (OCD) – affiliated to the Catholic Church, commissioned the ‘Benziger Hospice Home’ project in the South Indian city of Trivandrum with the vision of providing free accommodation for cancer patients visiting local hospitals. The project’s original brief was for five floors, which was reduced to three storeys encompassing 26 Patient Suites during project development.
The site is located at Nilambur in Malappuram district and designed for Anasbabu and family, along with his wife and children, Grand parents and brother and family resides here. Residence has a total area of 2500 square feet and the total extent of the site is 15 cents.
Set amidst Southern Kerala’s sumptuous green backdrop of rubber plantations, The Captain’s Residence, captures one’s attention right from the far access. The dwelling morally gels in its natural context with its exemplary features popping out to catch the eye’s gentle attention. We can say that the house stands as a unique representation of tropical adaptiveness wrapped in modernist contemporary design outlook.
Set against one of the silent hilltops of Trivandrum, the site was located at the highest point in that particular part of the woods. The client was somebody who loved to travel and planned frequent escapades to distant lands, all over the country. The Himalayas had always caught his attention and intrigued him the most and he was lucky that his abode too would be just as reclusive, set into the lovely hilltop.
A skewed plot set in a tight residential area in tripunithura, ernakulam and a one line expectation from the client “a spacious, well ventilated house with minimalistic unique features” has evolved into a skewed monotone house full of vibes. The east facing 5 cents plot is surrounded by a vacant land on to the west, a closely constructed house on the south and a passage for the plot behind on the north. The idea was to use the maximum plot area available keeping the angles intact.
Working with exposed brick in itself is a great challenge – a delicate balance between brick work and exposed concrete is important for the aesthetic balance and beauty of the house. The house had to be special everywhere – for example you don’t see a white color contrast lintel at lintel level in this house.
The site is located at tripunithura, the suburb of Ernakulam, Kerala. It’s a rectangular plot with a passage leading from the road on the south side, houses on both east and west side and the rear side with a small gully road. The client’s brief was to have a spacious house with ample amount of light and ventilation.
The passage from the road leads to the parking and the sitout on the south-east corner. The entrance door leads to the formal living space, with the guest bedroom on to the left and the informal living space on to the right. The double floor height dining space is accessible from the informal and formal living space with the kitchen and utility on the right and the second bedroom on to the left. The dining space leads to the pooja and the backyard door.
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